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I'd say that the people counting leap seconds are the ones "doing something". At the point they needed to be inserted, Unix systems carry on counting seconds a

by agons 3y ago

I'd say that the people counting leap seconds are the ones "doing something". At the point they needed to be inserted, Unix systems carry on counting seconds as units of time as they pass, "ignoring" the need to add 1 for the purposes of accounting.

zokier 3y ago
> At the point they needed to be inserted, Unix systems carry on counting seconds as units of time as they pass unix systems essentially will roll back clocks during leap seconds. here is handy dandy table as an example: Time tv_sec tv_usec 2015-06-30T23:59:58.9Z 1435708798 900000 2015-06-30T23:59:59.0Z 1435708799 0 2015-06-30T23:59:59.1Z 1435708799 100000 ... ... ... 2015-06-30T23:59:59.9Z 1435708799 900000 2015-06-30T23:59:60.0Z 1435708799 0 2015-06-30T23:59:60.1Z 1435708799 100000 ... ... ... 2015-06-30T23:59:60.9Z 1435708799 900000 2015-07-01T00:00:00.0Z 1435708800 0 2015-07-01T00:00:00.1Z 1435708800 100000 ... ... ... I don't know about you but I wouldn't call that "counting seconds as units of time as they pass"